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It’s back to school season, which means by now many young adults will have returned to college, focusing on their futures and in some cases, traveling miles away from home. Academic life can be a major source of stress, and stress is of course a primary cause of illness. Many colleges and universities, recommend or …
While zinc supplementation is becoming ever more popular for immune support, zinc still tends to be overlooked as a mineral to support gut health, including both intestinal mucosal integrity and digestive function. Zinc deficiency can impair digestion in several ways but most directly by reducing gastric acid secretion. There is also evidence that zinc’s role …
Weight loss remains one of the most common health concerns for patients seeking alternative healthcare and one of the most difficult to successfully address. Losing weight should be simple, even without the added benefits that natural treatment can offer, and yet this is rarely the case in practice, especially with female patients. Many women seem …
The Iowa-based nutritional supplement and homeopathic products company, Energique, has been an optimal health solution for more than 30 years. Working with practitioners across the globe, Energique has helped elevate patient health by formulating and manufacturing high-quality health products. In addition, the company provides educational resources such as ongoing webinars and a new private communication …
Myocarditis, whether viral, bacterial, toxic, autoimmune, or even due to parasites, has the potential to affect anyone, but it has become apparent that athletes seem to be disproportionately affected. Presently, they are literally dropping dead around the world, which is so striking because athletes in general are considered the healthiest members of the population, engaging …
By Practitioners, For Practitioners Whether you’re brand new to us or a long-time patron of our herbal, homeopathic, and nutritional products, you may not know the full story of Energique. We are a professional brand supplying natural remedies exclusively to qualified holistic healthcare practitioners, but we are also more than that – an employee-owned company …
The relationship of homeopathy to detoxification arguably extends to its very origins: horrified by the effects of drugging with mercury, opium, and quinine, the most popular medicines of his day, homeopathy’s progenitor Samuel Hahnemann pioneered a less-poisonous system of healing. Using the same toxic substances, which in rare cases seemed to have miraculous healing qualities, …
By now, you’ve likely heard of the supposed new magic shot for weight loss. Though it goes by different trade names, the molecule itself is called semaglutide, and reports from people who have been prescribed the shot for weight loss and/or diabetes management are beyond remarkable – 20-25% of body weight melting off effortlessly with …
If you have reached out to our staff naturopathic doctors through our popular Askthedoc feature, you have probably heard back from Dr. Laurell Matthews. In addition to working for Energique, Dr. Laurell still sees patients and enjoys the challenge of thinking through complex clinical scenarios. She loves to hear from our practitioners to help them …
Ian Spohn, ND, is a staff naturopathic doctor for Energique who enjoys challenging the dogmas of both conventional and alternative medicine. He is a passionate supporter of the paleo diet and classical homeopathy. With advances in science and medicine allowing more people to live longer, maintaining health and function into old age will become more …
The two most common forms of vitamin B12 used in dietary supplements are cyanocobalamin and methylcobalamin. The majority of these large molecules is identical, but each has a different moiety attached to the cobalt core.
Supporting a woman through the menopausal transition can be challenging due to the myriad of different symptoms a woman might experience. Not only could there be hot flashes, but also a host of other potential issues like irregular menstruation, mood issues, and memory and libido changes.
The pathophysiology of atopic dermatitis, or eczema, is well-understood and can be boiled down to two main issues: impaired skin barrier function and a TH2-dominant immune response.
Few food additives have stirred up more controversy than monosodium glutamate (MSG). Occurring naturally in certain foods, added to almost everything these days, hidden beneath an ever-growing list of deceptive ingredient names, the controversy continues as to whether or not MSG is actually that harmful.
Though pollen is often blamed for allergies, and while it plays an undeniable part, it is unlikely that pollen alone should cause otherwise healthy people to suffer such misery.
Encouraging patients to make healthy lifestyle changes is integral to the practice of holistic medicine, since so many modern diseases relate directly to modern lifestyles. The new year provides a perfect occasion to prioritize this with patients, since so many people spontaneously resolve to relinquish old habits around this time, or begin new ones, often with the specific goal of improving their health. But we all know from experience how many of these people are likely to fail, and wonder perhaps if there are natural means to assist patients in keeping their new year’s resolutions to become healthier.
As a healthcare provider, there are few things more satisfying than watching a patient's condition improve or resolve completely with a single treatment. Among the many holistic treatment modalities, homeopathy is one of few that targets the vital force directly, and has been the agent of some of the most dramatic natural cures, in some cases the sole agent. In some cases, it is a single dose of a single remedy, and these cases are perhaps the most satisfying although more often, it requires repetition of the remedy or multiple remedies to achieve a satisfying result, as anyone who has worked with homeopathy knows.
It is ironic that just as the world seems to be emerging from one global catastrophe, as if on cue, another one comes along to take its place. The war between Russia and Ukraine has become a significant source of stress for many people around the world. In this case, the stress as well as the conflict's geographic and historical associations may call to mind a specific herb, known for its role in stress relief.
Sodium is an essential constituent of every tissue in the body, whereas mercury is a toxin with no known role in physiology. Salt is so crucial to physiology that many mammals will actively seek it out in the form of salt licks and so important to humans that it was once used as currency, whereas mercury exposure is associated with neurodegenerative disease and is widely feared. But if a patient suffers from hypertension it is likely to be salt they are told to avoid, even though a drastic reduction in sodium intake has been shown to have only a minimal effect on blood pressure, resulting in average reductions in the order of 5.5/2.8 mm Hg .
It's hard to think of a chronic disease that has not in some way been associated with excessive inflammation and/or excessive weight gain. It's also hard to think of a more elegant way to naturally address both of these concerns than by correcting the ratio of omega-three to omega-six fats in the body since a preponderance of omega-six from consuming diets high in linoleic acid is now thought to be a major contributor to both.
Anosmia, or loss of smell, is a common symptom of numerous upper respiratory infections, and in some cases can persist long after the infection resolves.
While science can discover new uses for plants, and prove what we already know, it often seems that in the realm of botanical medicine, there is tremendous pressure to use science from a defensive position, to justify the new “alternative” practice of continuing to do something that has worked for generations. From a world-historical perspective, the bizarre modern experiment of not using plants as the primary source of our medicines is in fact the alternative practice.
The seasonal transition to autumn brings with it cooler days and darker nights, but while some relish this change it can also wreak havoc on patients with certain mood disorders. The remarkable association between winter darkness and depression has been termed seasonal affective disorder, but the onset of autumn can affect other mood disorders as well. Less well-known is the autumn spike in manic episodes for patients with bipolar disorder, a condition increasingly recognized to follow complex seasonal patterns.
Sometimes, treating digestive disorders can require unraveling a complex tangle of interrelated psychological, immunological, and gastroenterological factors. It can involve identifying and addressing such problems as hypochlorhydria, histamine intolerance, hiatal hernia, microscopic colitis, ileocecal valve dysfunction, or a microbiome devastated by multiple rounds of antibiotics. Other times, the most intractable digestive disorders can be effectively addressed by simply eliminating one particular food trigger from the diet.
